### Function

# GLib environ_getenv

since: 2.32

#### Declaration [src]

    const gchar*
    g_environ_getenv (
      gchar** envp,
      const gchar* variable
    )

#### Description [src]

Returns the value of the environment variable `variable` in the provided list `envp`.

Available since: 2.32

#### Parameters

`envp`

  Type: An array of `filename`

      an environment list (eg, as returned from g_get_environ()), or `NULL`
      for an empty environment list.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The array must be `NULL`-terminated.
  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  Each element is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

`variable`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The environment variable to get.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

#### Return value

Type: `const gchar*`

The value of the environment variable, or `NULL` if the environment variable is not set in `envp`. The returned string is owned by `envp`, and will be freed if `variable` is set or unset again.

The data is owned by the called function.
The return value can be `NULL`.
The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.